------- Additional Comments From lerdsuwa at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-01-24
14:27 -------
There is a defect report DR259 about this issue:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#259
According to the DR, the original standard mentions that
the instantiation:
template class A<char>;
is invalid because there is already a specialization
template <> class A<char> { ... };
declared earlier.
In the revised version of the standard, which includes the
resolution of this DR, the instantiation is ignored.
Recent GCC releases follow this behavior.
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19569
